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Coming in time for the IDUG conference in Philadelphia is the latest DB2 certification guide: DB2 10.1/10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration: Certification Study Guide I'm very pleased to congratulate first time authors Mohankumar Saraswatipura , Robert Collins on the great work they did on this book. They worked with the content that was originally created and published by the certification master, Roger Sanders, and updated it to include... [More]

I enjoy working with all the IBM Champions who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting so far. The one champion I’d like to focus on in this blog entry is Scott Hayes. Once again, Scott has filled his DB2Night Show calendar with educational webinars that you’ll want to take part in. This is the fifth season, so there are already 4 seasons of great episodes that you can watch in replay. He’s also planning on a 4th edition of the “DB2’s Got Talent” Competition. He’s already... [More]

Besides announcing Mohan as the winner of the 2013 “DB2’s Got Talent” competition ,
Vijay Sitaram and Bob Vargo, volunteers from IDUG joined the DB2Night
Show today to provide information as to what is taking place at IDUG
Orlando. The conference begins April 29 and ends May 3 and there are
plenty of reasons to attend the conference. There
are two milestones being celebrated this year: IDUG celebrates 25 years
of amazing learning and DB2 has been a product for 30 years. Can you
imagine the number of people who have been involved... [More]

Lots of votes came in over the past two weeks. Our final four contestants, Ember, Mohan, Eric, & Chris know how to use their networks! It was a very close call for 2nd, 3rd,
& 4th places. A new record was set for the number of votes
received: 1367 Thanks to all who voted!! I hope you enjoy the show
and will come back to replay many of the other informative shows in the
DB2Night Show collection. Thanks to the sponsors for offering these excellent prizes! 1st
Prize: One FREE IDUG Conference Registration to any IDUG... [More]

What
great talent we have in the DB2 community! We know the names of many
of the long term contributors to the community, but the health of a
community is in it’s newcomers. I want to give my thanks to Scott
Hayes, IBM Champion and producer of the DB2’s Got Talent competition.
With this competition we can see the health AND the talent of our
community. This
blog entry is a complete summary of this year’s competition. I’ve
listed the titles of each of the presentations and the replay where you
can find that presentation.... [More]

The
top 5, based on last week’s votes, presented today on the DB2Night
Show’s “DB2’s Got Talent” Competition. The top 3 are automatically saved
while the judges must save one of the bottom 2. If you missed today’s show, check out the replay. The winner from last week show will be announced on Scott’s blog and will win a $25 amazon.com gift certificate. More
than 800 votes were cast in the past week. Thanks to all! Be sure to
come back for the final week of voting! Based on votes, here is the
current ranking. 1. Mohan 2. Ember... [More]

The
top 7 finalists of the DB2Night Show “DB2’s Got Talent” competition
presented today. And guess what we got? Another 7 great presentations
that were both entertaining and informative! The
last round of the competition ended up with 964 votes! Can we top that
in the next round? As a result of the votes, we’ve identified the top 4
and the bottom 3 ⇒ The judges will save 1 from the bottom 3 in this
show. Next week we’ll hear from the Top 5 as determined by your votes. So support these rising stars... listen, vote, and share!... [More]

A
whopping 730 votes were cast for our finalists before Friday’s show!
As a result, we have our top 6 and bottom 3 contestants. The task for
the judges is to save one of the bottom 3 and then to hand off the
voting to you the listeners again. Let’s try to beat the number of
votes from last week! Two of our bottom three: Renu How I successfully, designed, implemented and monitored IBM InfoSphere Event Publisher.... My Experience. Event
Publisher is a Subset of Q Replication. Rene provided a good
definition of this tool with... [More]

Today’s
DB2Night Show featured the top 10 contestants who were chosen by the
judges in February. They each had four minutes to impress the audience
and replay listeners. That’s correct. This time the judges are giving
feedback, but are not choosing the best competitor. I must say that
I’m very glad I’m not choosing the best. If you were in the audience
today or if you listen to the replay , you’ll see what I mean: All presenters were incredible Lots of learning happening today! Here’s a summary: Ember The Fragmentation of... [More]

Today
the three judges of the DB2Night Show “DB2’s Got Talent” Competition
presented along with host Scott Hayes. It was fun, and hopefully
informative to the audience. I
presented first and sadly ran out of time! It is much harder than it
looks. My presentation was on the Power of Social media. I gave tips
on how people can promote the work that they do to the DB2 community,
how to listen to what is going on in the community, and how people can
contribute via likes, comments and sharing the content provided by
others.... [More]

We
had 4 great presentations again this week! I’d really like to thank
all participants... I know it isn’t always easy to present, but it is
very important for us to share our knowledge with others! Mikko - Summary Table Design & Monitoring A little trouble following the story of the problem & solution. Summary tables are a huge topic. Well presented. Umesha - Detailed steps to configure DB2 Distributed Data Facility (DDF) for z/OS Good slides. Not practised? Went over time. Missing the “why”. Only “how” was covered in... [More]

Did
you attend The DB2Night Show on Friday? We had the second show in this
year’s DB2’s Got Talent Competition. I was on vacation during the
first show, so IBM Champion Cristian Molaro was kind enough to fill in
as a judge for me. I’ve listened to the replay, so here is my summary
of both the first and second shows in this series. Feb 1 - Show 1 of the DB2’s Got Talent Competition - watch the replay. There
were supposed to be a few other contestants on this show, but they were
no-shows. We were still able to hear from Ember... [More]

Berni
Schiefer is the guest on this week’s DB2Night Show. Berni is a DB2
performance legend and you’ll greatly benefit from hearing his talk.
Berni will share the latest news, tips and advice about DB2 LUW 10. Thanks to IBM Champions and hosts of this fabulous show: Scott Hayes and Martin Hubel Click here to register . Remember, all shows are recorded, so if you miss it, you can still catch up at a later time. Also remember that Feb 1 begins the 3rd "DB2's Got Talent Competition. For information, see my blog entry: Become a DB2... [More]

What
have former contestants of “DB2’s Got Talent” competition been able to
achieve since they improved their presentation skills as a result? Some
of the former contestants have been telling me about their published
articles and IDUG presentation. If you haven’t contacted me already and
you were a contestant, tell me about what you’ve been up to. Before
you read the list, I first want to say that I’m very proud of each and
everyone one of these people as becoming presenters and writers isn’t
always easy. I’m also very glad... [More]

This Friday Nov 30 at 11:00 am ET, join host Scott Hayes and guest Glen Sheffield from IBM for the next DB2Night Show. The topic of the day: IBM DB2 LUW Data Warehouse & DPF Performance Glen will share the latest tips and advice on maximizing DB2 DPF Performance. Click to Register. For more information on this topic, see the following resources: Download an evaluation copy: IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 10.1 Enterprise Edition What's new Video: Tour of InfoSphere Warehouse Whitepaper: From the department to the enterprise with IBM InfoSphere... [More]